Front Speaker Install in STi8
05 February 2004, 01:51 PM
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Front Speaker Install in STi8
I have a question concerning the installation of replacement speakers in my STi8.
Do you take the input for the new crossover from the existing wire to the main speaker or has this signal already come from a crossover that is driving the existing tweeter as well?
If you do use the existing wire as the feed I presume the current wire to the factory installed tweeter becomes redundant?
Hope that makes sense?
Do you take the input for the new crossover from the existing wire to the main speaker or has this signal already come from a crossover that is driving the existing tweeter as well?
If you do use the existing wire as the feed I presume the current wire to the factory installed tweeter becomes redundant?
Hope that makes sense?
05 February 2004, 05:56 PM
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The feed to the old woofer is used as the feed in for your new crossover, and the std tweeter feed does as you say become redundant. This wire can be left inplace incase you want to revert back if you sell the car.
You extend the wiring that fed the old woofer into your new crossover (marked as amp) mounted in the door panel. Then take a new wire from the crossover (marked as woofer) to the new woofer and another wire from the crossover (marked as tweeter) into your new tweeter (mine was mounted in the stock location).
Hope that makes some sense.
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You extend the wiring that fed the old woofer into your new crossover (marked as amp) mounted in the door panel. Then take a new wire from the crossover (marked as woofer) to the new woofer and another wire from the crossover (marked as tweeter) into your new tweeter (mine was mounted in the stock location).
Hope that makes some sense.
Dipster
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06 February 2004, 09:29 AM
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Spot on 
- just for info, the wiring to the OEM tweeter is a full range signal and the OEM tweeter has a capacitor right next to it, on the tweeter portion of the wiring. Do NOT plug in an after market tweeter to that signal, it'll knacker it.
What Dipster has said is spot on. I hope this doesn't confuse, as it's for info only...
Cheers,
Nick.
- just for info, the wiring to the OEM tweeter is a full range signal and the OEM tweeter has a capacitor right next to it, on the tweeter portion of the wiring. Do NOT plug in an after market tweeter to that signal, it'll knacker it.What Dipster has said is spot on. I hope this doesn't confuse, as it's for info only...
Cheers,
Nick.
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